It took 15 minutes last night for Samuel Eto'o to make Roberto Martinez a genius. In those 15 minutes Eto'o proved to everyone he still had something left for top-level football as he helped Everton secure a 4-1 over Wolfsburg in the Europa League.

For those following the World Cup, Keylor Nevas has become a household name. The Costa Rican goalkeeper almost single handedly put his side into the World Cup quarter-finals and came quite close to beating an extremely talented Netherlands side.

We now have three matches to remember, discounting the third place play-off which itself is a waste of everyone’s time, for Brazil 2014 to be deemed worthy as holding the title as being one of the great World Cups.

The USA may have crashed out of the World Cup with extra time defeat to Belgium, but their undisputed hero of the night was goalkeeper Tim Howard, who kept Eden Hazard and co. at bay for the best part of the match.

Facing a side looking to exceed expectations is going to be difficult for Germany - a side who simply must fulfil their own. Jürgen Klinsmann, an all too familiar face, has developed the USA team into one of the most competitive in Brazil.

To football fans in the United States, no word barbs the heart quite so much as 'Ghana'. In the past two World Cups, the Americans have bid bitter adieu to the competition at the hands of the Black Stars, who—first in Nuremberg and then in Rustenburg—dealt the knockout blow to the USA's tournament dreams.